Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccc917178b15d7bf…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 53acdfbde9177579f152afb51385bb5f SHA-1: 8164633eccc6dc35bae859649003f797ef425802 SHA-256: ccc917178b15d7bf7b38b16cae91e733da86e25a48350b897b4c1d958d12d4ec
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically names it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. The file's purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload, characteristic of Qbot's typical infection chain.

Heuristics 1

  • ClamAV: Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0